Obamas welcome Trumps to White House
“If our partners refuse a renegotiation that gives American workers a fair deal, then the president will give notice of the United States’ intent to withdraw from Nafta”, the administration said. Even liberals who claim President-elect Donald Trump will be bad for low-income and unemployed Americans have to concede that.
Trump and his wife Melania will begin their day at St. John’s Episcopal Church, located across Lafayette Park from the White House.
US President Donald Trump says he took a “beautiful” letter from former President Barack Obama, which he will keep secret.
Laura Bush and Michelle Obama spoke separately in the White House residence and traveled to the Capitol together, while the president and his successor rode in a limousine to the inauguration. Some analysts predict that Mr Trump will use his executive powers next week to boost the oil and gas industry by approving pipeline applications.
The unprecedented economic conflicts of this administration need to be visible to the American people, including any pertinent documentation which can reveal the foreign influences and financial interests which may put Donald Trump in conflict with the emoluments clause of the Constitution. “The movement continues – the work begins!”
It was the first senior-level dialogue between the two countries after the Trump inauguration, and the Blue House said the phone conversation was arranged at US request.
Trump’s advisors have recommended he take several steps to limit immigration into the United States within his first days in office, according to several people close to the presidential transition team.
The ceremony – including a formal address by the new president and the swearing-in of Mike Pence, a former in governor and congressman, as vice president – marks the end of an exhaustive, combative campaign in a bitterly divided nation.
In one of the first actions in office, Trump’s administration has now promptly eliminated all mentions of climate change off the White House website. “President Trump is committed to reversing this trend, because he knows that our military dominance must be unquestioned”.
Police reported more than 200 arrests by evening and said six officers had been hurt. Numerous contentious legislative disputes are expected, though, leaving the eventual outcome in doubt. Trump has indicated that the USA could withdraw from the accord, though such a move would take years to accomplish.
Anti-Trump protesters are demonstrating against his inauguration. At least one vehicle was set afire. Officers deployed chemical spray at the crowd.
The White House identified as their specific areas of focus: pursuing undocumented immigrants with criminal convictions, increasing community engagement, securing Second Amendment rights, ending sanctuary cities, and reducing violent crime in America’s largest cities.
He said in an interview with The Sunday Times, Trump saud he would retain his @RealDonaldTrump Twitter account as well as the POTUS account because “it’s working”. They go to each other’s weddings and funerals.
Short and pointed, Trump’s 16-minute address in the heart of Washington was a blistering rebuke of many who listened from privileged seats only feet away.
Instead, Trump has spent a life building skyscrapers in NY and elsewhere.